[It is hereby resolved to] grant the request of the leadership of the Communist Parties of Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru and arrange, in 1980-81. in the USSR, for a course of training, of up to 3 months, in clandestine Party work and consulting with regard to internal Party security, for six comrades from Colombia, two comrades from Paraguay (upon completing their course of training in party work this year, in Moscow), and one comrade from Peru. The said comrades shall be received, accommodated (continued on next page)…

(vote results)

[Seven illegible signatures] 04.04.80/77/Excerpts from these minutes to be forwarded to Andropov, Ponomarenko, Pavlov/04.04.80/Excerpts forwarded

04.04.80 [signed] Khalturina

…and materially provided for by the International Department and the Department of Administrative Affairs, CC CPSU. Expenses involved in travel of the [above- mentioned] six Colombian comrades from Bogota to Moscow and back, two Paraguayan comrades from Moscow to Buenos Aires, and one Peruvian comrade from Lima to Moscow shall be charged to the Party budget.

[Six illegible signatures] 2ti/0890

“To be returned to Sector II, General Department, CC CPSU, within 3 days”/ Workers of all countries, unite!/Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union/Top Secret (“Special Folder”)/#Ct-205/55gs, 04.04.80

Excerpt from Protocol [Minutes] #205, §55 gc, CC CPSU Secretariat

[It is hereby resolved to] grant the request of the leadership of the Communist Parties of Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru and arrange, in 1980-81. in the USSR, for a course of training, of up to 3 months, in clandestine Party work and consulting with regard to internal Party security, for six comrades from Colombia, two comrades from Paraguay (upon completing their course of training in party work this year, in Moscow), and one comrade from Peru.

Their training shall be the responsibility of the Committee for State Security [KGB] of the USSR, while the accommodation and material support [of the said
comrades] shall be the responsibility of the International Department and the Department of Administrative Affairs, CC CPSU. Expenses involved in travel of the [above-mentioned] six Colombian comrades from Bogota to Moscow and back, two Paraguayan comrades from Moscow to Buenos Aires, and one Peruvian comrade from Lima to Moscow shall be charged to the Party budget.

CC SECRETARY

Copies hereof forwarded to Comrades Andropov, Ponomaryov, Pavlov 4en

[Handwritten]

Attention: Comrade V.E. Tapkin

You will please vote on the [above-mentioned] issue Comrade K.U. Chernenko has been duly instructed. /[Illegible signature]/Further to #0890 of 04.03.80/Further to

The leaderships of the Communist Parties of Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru have requested (request enclosed herewith) that CC CPSU arrange, in 1980-81 in the USSR, for a course of training, of up to 3 months, in clandestine Party work and consulting with regard to internal Party security, for six comrades from Colombia, two comrades from Paraguay (upon completing their course of training in party work this year, in Moscow), and one comrade from Peru.

I believe that such accommodations for [the above-mentioned] six comrades from Colombia, two comrades from Paraguay, and one comrade from Peru could be made by the International Department and the Department of Administrative Affairs, CC CPSU, and that the requested course of training could be entrusted to the Committee for State Security of the USSR; also, that the Expenses involved in travel of the six Colombian comrades from Bogota to Moscow and back, two Paraguayan comrades from Moscow to Buenos Aires, and one Peruvian comrade from Lima to Moscow could be charged to the Party budget.

This matter has been coordinated with the KGB (Comrade Chebrikov). Draft CC CPSU resolution is enclosed herewith.

[To:] International Department, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Dear Comrades:

I hereby request that you consider our request, concerning the accommodation and a course of and training in counterintelligence for six handpicked Colombian Communists. The above-mentioned comrades could take turns arriving as two groups, each made up of 3 persons.

Fraternally yours, Gilberto Vieira Secretary General,

CC, Communist Party of Colombia January 8, 1980, City of Moscow (Signed) Translated by A. Mineyev

[Same CC CPSU General Dpt. Stamp, # 0219/Jan. 17, 1980/same format]

Translated from the Spanish [Attention:] CC CPSU Esteemed Comrades:

Allow me to request, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Paraguayan Communist Party (PCP), that you accommodate in 1980 CC PCP member Comrade Ananias Maidana Palacios, who is currently enrolled in the Lenin International School, and provide for a course of training, of up to 3 months, in clandestine Party work and internal Party security.

We further request that you make arrangements for his ID papers while abroad and on clandestine Party missions.

Comrade Jorge Del Prado sends his greetings to CC CPSU and, in view of the situation in his country, requests that the USSR receive his liaison man in 1980 and arrange for a course in clandestine operations and communications. The person in question is Comrade Enrique Castro-Prado, a PCP activist capable of carrying out important missions assigned him by the Party leadership. He could visit the Soviet Union [ostensibly] for rest [and recreation] and [meanwhile] undergo a two-three- month course of special training.

In conclusion of his letter, Comrade Jorge Del Prado thanks in advance for his request being taken into account and sends his brotherly greetings.